“If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.”

Variant: If you're in trouble or hurt or need–go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help–the only ones.
Source: The Grapes of Wrath

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American writer 1902–1968

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